Tim Wu is well known for proposing sweeping preemptive regulation of competitive industries with no proof of a regulatory problem -- in pushing for preemptive net neutrality regulations that culminated in the FCC's Open Internet Order, and for preemptive "Carterfone" wireless regulations of the FCC's 700 MHz auctions.)

When asked by the Wall Street Journal what he would be working on at the FTC, Mr. Wu ominously bragged: "I would be satisfied with getting together rules for the Internet platform."

Professor Wu gets an A+ for hubris, given that bringing his FreePress agenda to regulate the Internet for the first time -- is in direct conflict with the law of the land (which is to preserve the competitive free market Internet "unfettered by Federal or State regulation") and with President Obama's Executive Order that promised the "least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends."

In sum, most in D.C. fully understand the old adage that "people are policy."

The FTC would have been hard-pressed to find a more anti-business, pro-government-regulation-of-the-Internet person to advise the FTC "on rules for the Internet platform."

If Mr. Wu's hubristic announcement of his intentions and his regulatory past are any indication, he will have the FTC chasing after new imagined problems (that require immediate and interventionist government economic regulation) in no time.